huskerswrkhavoc said:
corncraze said:
Yuck, forced rivalry crap again. It's the Colorado talk all over again. It won't be difficult for me to root for them vs MSU. I honestly don't feel one way or the other about their program.
Except the Nebraska Iowa rivalry is more natural.. Iowa has actually been relevant for awhile.. Whether you feel they suck or not isn't the thing. No where close to Colorado here.
So Colorado wasn't relevant when they were consistently a top program in the 1990's or when they were beating us in the early 2000's?
How is it more natural? Besides the Omaha/Council Bluffs folks, I think the majority of our fans don't really care about Iowa.
Honestly, I have never had a problem with Iowa.
Rivalries are formed over years of competition, which is something we haven't really had with any Big Ten team. How can we declare anyone as our rival right now? It makes no sense to me for our fans to point their fingers at a team and declare how much they hate that team, despite the fact we haven't even played them yet in our new conference.
You want it to be natural? Then stop forcing it. Let these rivalries form on their own.